With Intel announcing they are killing off their loss making low-end Atom chips, the days of cheap mini pcs are coming to an end. Intel was subsidizing these chips to gain market share which is why this hardware was so affordable. If Intel are only keeping the much more expensive Core M chipsets then this particular niche market will disappear and there will be only Android sticks as before.

Well, to be honest, I would say that Windows sticks just doesn't even have enough power to replace desktops yet. Most of it is because the complimenting hardware is not that reliable and the cooling structure is not engineered well.

Microsoft isn't helping either. They raised the Windows license fee for devices with 2 GB RAM or above. That is why the release of newer 4 GB RAM PCs have slowed.